“Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s seemingly spontaneous performances in space were the product of a three-year marketing campaign complete with CBC collaboration and occasional tweets ghostwritten by government employees, Blacklock’s has learned,” reads the article.

Blacklock’s obtained documents via the Access to Information Act that they say show government involvement in Hadfield’s social media presence.

Evan Hadfield also writes that his dad wrote all the tweets sent while he was on the ISS. A few times, the Canadian Space Agency would ask him to tweet about certain things, such as the new $5 bills, but Hadfield would write the tweets and press send himself.

@thekaufmanshow Yes. And I made that clear when I did. The CSA was never able to access his account, at any point, ever.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the CSA would ask this of Hadfield, or have a hand in promoting the astronaut, considering he is a government employee and not some sort of freelance space traveller.

“It is deceptive to say that Hadfield’s tweets and interaction was “ghost-written,” packaged or manipulated in the way the author is attempting to make it appear,” wrote Evan Hadfield.

“That which was planned, such as the I.S.S. song, Canadian 5 dollar bill, and puck drop for the Maple Leafs, was done so without any secret intent. At no point was it in any way unclear that there were people on the ground helping him to execute those events.”

If anyone should know, it’s Evan Hadfield, who mentored his father through connecting to us Earthlings with social media.

@perreaux There was someone helping. Me. I wasn't a ghost writer, and I was never secret. What he wrote was a hack job, digging for ad rev.